The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-04-27

Bath at town meeting Monday voted
to to run the city clock by local tine.
The Governor and Coz neil met at the
State House yesterday and are in session
to-day.
The Governor has nominated 5. W |
Mathews of Caribou Commissioner of
labor Statistics.
Gladstone is bending all his energies to
the defeat of the coercion bill in paria-
ment.
There is an ice gorge in the St Law
renee at Montreal and much damage is
reported.
Graves the Warden Murderer is eX-
pected in Bangor to-day in charge Of the
officer that went to California after him.
Jacob Short. the doodle aldermen Of
New York, Is on trial on indictment Of q
counts for bribery.
l. I. NJ. Simmons, manager of Hotel
Del Monte recently burned at Monterey |
Cal, has been arrested for arson.
The governor of Newfoundland has
been summoned 10 England to confer
with the government in relating to the
fisheries.
An arrest made by German officials OF
commissary, NJ. Schnaeblcs is creating
much comment aud has effected the price
of government rents in France,
Water is very high on the Sebasticook
About thirty feet of the stone dam at
Pittsheld was carried out Sunday, and
fears were entertained of further danger
at Iartland and Pittsfleld.
The first murder since the law abolish
ing capital punishment went into effect is
the Chase fratricde at Clinton and, If
Frank w. Chase is sane, this is murder in
the first degree.
There are fears of n general outbreak
among Kiowa and Comanche Indians in
Northern Texas. w. A. Stinson and two
of his stock men were murdered by in
dians in Green County.
Deputy Collector T homas +. Murphy is
peacefully residing at the Augusta Jail,
his callers being numerous. Hon. w. ii.
Clifford of Portland has presented him a
handsome set of Dickens works
The field officers of the First and Sec
ond Maine Militia regiments met at Au-
gusta Monday and balloted dozen times
more or less for Brcgadier General but
failed to make choice and Governor
Bodwell will now have to appoint one.
member of the legislature calls our
attention to the fact that the Marriage
Endowment Charter alluded to in the RE-
PORTER last week was defeated in the
House last winter instead of being allowed
to die on The Speakers table. We stand
corrected
terrible cyclone visited Prescott,
Kansas, and completely wiped out the vii
lage killing II inhabitants. Other vii
lagos were greatly damaged. In dis
lance of 22 miles only one honse is known
to have withstood the fury of the storm
The tempest prevailed in parts of Mis-
souri, and Arkansas and 30 lives were
lost.
The Madison Bulletin says S ID.
Greenlief, of Starks, claims to be the only
survivor of the Greenback party left in
Maine. The Bangor Commercial says
that John White Esq, of Levant may
take exceptions to the above statement,
as he says that he still clngs to the ship.
There are lots of them who still hold
the Grcenback doctrine, but don't say
much about 1t now.
George William Curtis in an interview
says that Ceaveland is the only h pc Of
the Democracy in 1883. A Western Sen
ator says that he has it from Cleveland
himself that he will under no considera-
ton take second term. The analogical
deduction OF this is that the Democracy |
will be sure of defeat. We are however
willing to wager years subscription of
the REPORTER that Cleveland will he the
Democrat candidate In 1883.
In the case of the Gardiner druggist in |
Judge Warehouses; court at Augusta, in
which Deputy Collector Murphy refused
to testify in regard to Hall, the defend
ants taking out L. S. license, the copy
of record made by A. NJ. Goddard Esq,
from the books of Collector Redman's
Office at Ellsworth, was admitted Us evil
dencc and Hall was thereupon conyictes.
If this is held as competent evidence 1t
will greatly facilitate the execution of
the law
Gross frauds have been perpetrated In
Michigan of late in life insurance by and
upon mutual companies of that State.
Paupers and aged persons nave been
frauduently insured for the benefit of the
Agents and the persons making the appli- {
cation and doctors have been in the habit
of taking out graveyard policies on the
lives of their own patients. No person l
should insure in any company unless he
can be satisfied both of the integrity of |
the agent and the soundness of the com
pany.
One of the results of the discussion on ,
the water works in our village is the
education of our people up to the belief $
that Skowhegan needs water and must {
have it. AT first this straight proposition :
was secuted by many, now there is hardly /
man but what, in candid conversation
will admit that it is a necessity that must t
or latnr nnI TINT Ii L. | !